ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Sept 11, 2023

Key Takeaways from the ISW:

• Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts on Sept. 11 and have reportedly advanced near Bakhmut and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

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• The Rosgvardia may be recruiting previously imprisoned former Wagner Group fighters, likely to further subsume Wagner remnants while bolstering Russia’s domestic security apparatus.

• Russian border guards expressed similar grievances about limited capabilities and equipment to those voiced by Russian troops serving in Ukraine and continued to express concern over potential Ukrainian raids into Russia.

• The Kremlin’s ruling United Russia party unsurprisingly achieved most of its desired results in highly fraudulent local elections in Russia and occupied Ukraine.

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• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Vladivostok in the coming days, likely to discuss bilateral relations and North Korea’s supplies of artillery munitions to Russia.

• US and Armenian forces began joint military exercises in Armenia on Sept. 11.

• Russian forces conducted offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, near Bakhmut, along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line, in the western Donetsk-eastern Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast and advanced in some areas on Sept. 11.

• Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations in at least one sector of the front on Sept. 11 and advanced near Bakhmut, along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line, in the western Donetsk-eastern Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

  

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• Russian Central Election Committee Head Alexander Sidyakin unsurprisingly claimed that United Russia received the majority of votes in occupied Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts.

• Ukrainian and United Kingdom military officials reported on Sept. 11 that the Russian military intends to mobilize over 400,000 personnel by the end of 2023.

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Authors: Grace Mappes, Karolina Hird, Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, and Mason Clark.

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